title: IPRs revisited: using process recordings to develop nursing students' critical thinking skills.
abstract: Professional nurses must possess critical thinking skills to practice in contemporary health care systems. This paper describes the adaptation of an established strategy for helping students organize their thoughts--the interpersonal process recording (IPR)--to develop nursing students' critical thinking skills. The Critical Thinking-IPR encourages a systemic, theory-based approach to client problems, enables students to become self-directed learners, and engages student and teacher in analytic dialogue about clinical nursing problems.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 35294-1210, USA.
authors.forename: R P
authors.initials: RP
authors.lastname: Cox
mesh_terms: D003144:Communication Barriers; D004506:Education, Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007600:Judgment; D008606:Mental Processes; D009730:Nursing Assessment; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations